Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Pain and Glory’ is tragic, beautiful, meta-movie
Sony Pictures Classics/Courtesy
“Pain and Glory” transcends genres and transcends topics. It brings to light just how diverse a director Almodóvar is.
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This year’s Emmy nominations are everything
I find that I deeply resonate with a thought from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” lead Rachel Brosnahan: She is tired of hearing the word “strong” as an adjective to describe female characters.
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The dark reality of Bollywood’s arbitrary portrayal of communities in India
“Gully Boy” is an important, beautiful story, but its blaring use of brown face yields to the popular idea that the protagonist Murad and all his friends must be darker-skinned because they are from a slum.
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America, listen to your comedians
Off the Beat
Free speech in India is, to put it mildly, restricted. I used to think that being a journalist in India was the most terrifying job to do.
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Searching for new in the old: Intercollegiate dance circuit edition
Cutting Room Floor
The weekend of the competition was exhausting, and involved plenty of rehearsal and very little sleep. Before we knew it, my teammates and I were dolled up and at the performance venue, nervous and excited.
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With ‘Patriot Act,’ Hasan Minhaj brings political satire to ‘New Brown America’
He doesn’t care that his audience most definitely consists of non-Indians; he assumes, right from the beginning, that his audience understands — which is precisely where “Patriot Act” finds its strength.
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Documentary film ‘San Francisco’s Dying Music Scene’ depicts just how passionate musicians are about the city
Media platform POPeye Media’s recent short documentary, “San Francisco’s Dying Music Scene,” sheds light on this very community, talking to some of its members about what the city and its music mean to them.
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Satisfying ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ is anything but ‘stuff and nonsense’
Grade: 4.0/5.0 Ever wonder what it feels like to nest yourself in a comfortable movie theater seat and instantly be transported back to when you were 7 years old and struggling to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Enter “Mary Poppins Returns.” Director-producer Rob Marshall’s sequel to the age-old classic is everything one could
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BAMPFA Celebrates Season 9 of ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century’
The event, hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, featured a screening of the season’s highlights, as well as a conversation with two of its artists: Syjuco and multimedia artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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Veteran filmmaker Jeanne Marie Hallacy speaks on tribute to mothers, daughters, sisters
Veteran filmmaker Jeanne Marie Hallacy is passionate about stories of social justice, and, with “Mother, Daughter, Sister,” she has added another film to her already long list of documentaries about human rights issues relating to Southeast Asia.
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